Moses Greenleaf (1777-1834) was Maine’s pioneer mapmaker. An outspoken advocate of Maine statehood and economic development, he prepared his first map in 1815 [map 7] to accompany his demonstration that Maine deserved independence: A Statistical Vi...
Osgood Carleton (1741-1816) was the key figure in the early mapping of the Eastern District of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Maine. A land surveyor and teacher of the mathematical arts in Boston, he compiled existing manuscript maps and plans in...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] Commander of several Ar...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] As American expeditions...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] In the nineteenth centu...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] By the nineteenth centu...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration in American Culture 1. Mapping the Arctic 2. The Franklin Search 3. The Art of Exploration 4. Triumph and Tragedy 5. The Pearys [/expand] Long before mariners ex...
How the world saw Portland was shaped in large measure by the pictorial press, a popular new medium in the 1850s. While earlier publications provided few timely illustrations, these magazines featured illustrations as a means of weekly communication ...
In 1850, the City of Portland invested $80,000 in creating a new waterfront. This resulted in large brick and granite business blocks and warehouses along Commercial Street. The owners of these new structures featured their businesses on bill heads t...
The Portland peninsula was represented twice in the bird's eye views that were so popular in the United States after the Civil War. These bird's eye views provide historians with invaluable visual records for reconstructing an accurate representation...
